Nature And Environment

Elizabeth May: Greens in Favour of Sealer Buyout

OTTAWA -- The Green Party of Canada is expressing support today of NDP MP Ryan Cleary's efforts to examine both the commercial seal hunt and the management of the cod fishery.  "I support his Private Member's Bill for hearings into the collapse of the cod fishery and I think examining the potential for a buyout of the sealers is a good idea," said Green Leader Elizabeth May, MP for Saani ....

Archons: PM uses deception on Northern Gateway Pipeline

(Ienearth.org) -- Allegations by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver that review panel hearings on the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline are being hijacked by foreign-funded radicals are misinformed, and constitute an attempt at inappropriate influence over the regulatory process says the Dene Nation. Minister Oliver made the allegations in an open letter published on Monday. “The Minister ....

Harper on Tar Sands: Money Matters -- Not Cancer

The Alberta Oil Sands is the largest energy project on the planet, lying beneath 140,200 square kilometers of northern Alberta forest, an area almost ....

Ottawa: Quebec illegally clear-cuts protected Gatineau Park

Photo on left proves illegal Quebec provincial government clear-cut right beside National Capital Commission signage which affirms the environmental ....

Eco-Labels linked to Green Marketing Fraud

Avoid this phony eco-label! Learn why in our report, "SFI: Certified Greenwash."The Rise of Greenwash eco-labelsIn creating greenwash eco-la ....

Harper: Enbridge, Tar Sands more important than Democracy

Today’s stories in the press are just the next shoe to drop in a targeted campaign by the oil industry and the Harper government to silence Canadian ....

Archons: Tar Sands destroys Ancient Forest larger than Florida

The Alberta Oil Sands is the largest energy project on the planet, lying beneath 140,200 square kilometers of northern Alberta forest, an area almost as large as the state of Florida. This area represents 21% of Alberta and 37% of Alberta’s Boreal Forest Natural Region.   As of mid-2009, there were approximately 5,012 oil sands (mineral rights) agreements with the Province and 91 activ ....

Archons: Protest against Tar Sands, get Terrorist label

After a month of escalating rhetoric from the Harper government and oil industry front groups and recent confirmation from internal government documents that the government explicitly identified environmental and aboriginal groups as “adversaries” in its strategy to increase tar sands exports, ForestEthics has launched a petition calling on Canadians to tell the Prime Minister that they won ....

GMO Food: Monsanto Weed Killer compared to AIDS

Dr. Don Huber is an expert in an area of science that relates to the toxicity of genetically engineered (GE) foods. (Alternative terms for GE food ....

Gatineau Park: Quebec seeks clear-cut for Autoroute 5

Do you want to see a 300 year old pine forest cut down? What is the A- 5 expansion? The Autoroute 5 expansion was announced by Transport Canada an ....

Quebec gets Ottawa River Wetlands Reserve

Quebecers will one day have a new wildlife refuge along the Ottawa River thanks to the conservation group Ducks Unlimited and the federal and provinci ....

Fukushima: Seals get radiation sickness -- Is Humanity next?

Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Scores of r ....

Ontario must resist America's pollution and racism connection

 Is it acceptable for legal pollution levels to be higher in some neighbourhoods than in others? In the US, pollution is often concentrated in ar ....

Ontario must resist America's pollution and racism connection

 Is it acceptable for legal pollution levels to be higher in some neighbourhoods than in others? In the US, pollution is often concentrated in areas of colour, including the famous Cancer Alley. Changing this is called “environmental justice”, and is an important priority for US EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. (Ecojustice has framed the same issue as a Charter challenge in its work on be ....

Indigenous Peoples condemn Climate Talks Fiasco

Indigenous leaders returning from Durban, South Africa condemn the fiasco of the United Nations climate change talks and demand a moratorium on a forest carbon offset scheme called REDD+ which they say threatens the future of humanity and Indigenous Peoples' very survival. During the UN climate negotiations, a Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD+ and for Life w ....

Mother cat looks after baby rabbit

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Weather becomes weaponized, spawns Global Warming

Are elites seeking to play God through reseaching weather for weaponization?  Is Global Warming the spawning of a Weather War?  Has humanity been mislead into believing that the primary cause of Global Warming is "Greehouse Gas Emissions"?Watch the video below. In the meantime, would you like to see more analysis about this video in The Canadian National Newspaper? Then, show your suppor ....

Global Warming Patterns, Drought linked to Weather War

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Environmental Protection relies on a new Economic Measurement

Canadian author challenges the economic orthodoxy The Kyoto Protocol Is Not Enough!Replace Capitalistocracy including the GDP Index Toward a New Political Economy of Social Justice and Environmental Protection by Raymond Samuels II Part I: ISBN: 1-894839-97-8Part II: ISBN: 1-894934-34-2 Available at Amazon.ca: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/1894839978/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition ....

U.S. seeks to technology to create tornadoes, other weather anomalies

Perhaps the first efforts to control the weather involved prayer or rain dances, but in the modern era it has become the focus of varying technologies that are being attempted by Europeans, Asians and Americans. Even the King of Thailand has created a method of creating and steering rain clouds. Five different technologies, among many others, are presented to control the weather including contro ....